Patents by Inventor Ursula Else Eckstein

Ursula Else Eckstein has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6926638
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for carrying out an automated clutch actuation of a motor vehicle with a drive engine and a transmission, connected to said drive engine by way of a clutch, in which process the clutch exhibits both an opened and a closed operating position, whereby to introduce unpowered operating phases the clutch is transferred by means of automation into the opened operating position and to introduce powered operating phases it is transferred by means of automation into the closed operating position. To design such a process more reliably and comfortably, the variables, from which a dangerous situation in time or its termination can be concluded with a certain probability, are measured, according to the invention, so that the clutch can be moved into an operating position (opened or closed), which makes it possible to carry out faster the subsequent request of the driver—such as an acceleration request or a braking request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2005
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Helmut Gimmler, Peter-Klaus Kuhn, Christian Onnen, Friedrich Scherer, Alexander Schwarz, Michael Weiss, Udo Wollenhaupt, Florian Fredy Eckstein, Ursula Else Eckstein, Fredy Eckstein